WHAT??!?!!
So I just sent an email to the Borough Manager of Malvern Borough:
Ms. Whitaker,
I live in neighboring East Whiteland and we’re fighting a data center and now I see something being posted that you guys are having some kind of zoning hearing board about a data center?
I’m looking for specificity here: is the data center being proposed for the Borough of Malvern or are you proposing a data center ordinance?
For what it’s worth you don’t want tall buildings in the borough. Eastside flats has caused a problem that the borough will never recover from and you also didn’t make much on the ratables. Supersizing is not sustainable.
I have attached a screenshot that has caused me to email you.
Thank you
OK, so then I did some more digging on my own because Malvern Borough has a crappy website, but then I found this on Facebook put out by the burrow of Malvern in a forum that a lot of people don’t use I assume by whoever does their stuff in the borough-
I’m guessing this is the woman who put out the notice on Facebook:
smackenzie@malvern.org
I found it sort of on the website finally – maybe it’s their mobile version that just kind of sucks, I don’t know.
https://www.malvern.org/m/newsflash/home/detail/136
https://www.malvern.org/DocumentCenter/View/2660/Borough-of-Malvern-Proposed-Zoning-Ordinance-2026
https://www.malvern.org/DocumentCenter/View/2661/Borough-of-Malvern-Proposed-Zoning-Map-2026
I will admit that I find it profoundly disturbing that they want to supersize the tiny little strip mall where the Wawa and Worrell’s is and Anthony’s and England’s or anywhere else? This is a small town and we all know how Eastside flats looks like Jabba the Hutt. We all know that the proposed giant apartment building across from The Flying Pig hasn’t been moving forward much, I don’t get it and it’s a giant, ugly, scarred bit of earth with holes in the ground and a fence around it.
Here’s some history:
The old Patch article said at the time:
During a discussion of the police services and budgeting at the of Malvern Borough Council, resident Joan Yeager asked a related question:
“Once the King Street project is completed, how much additional money is going to come into the borough? In taxes and all,” she said.
“Something in the neighborhood of $60,000 a year,” council president Woody Van Sciver said, citing a financial feasibility study done before the project was approved.
The Patch Aticle seemed to have disappeared but I found it on the Internet Archive:
Look, honestly how would they fit a data center in Malvern Borough? I think all that happening is a data center ordinance but it’s just as important for all the residents to go there to this meeting. You also don’t want everything in the little town where you live to be super sized again.
I will write again if I hear from the borough manager.